I watch a lot of cooking videos on Instagram but find it absolutely stomach-turning when they include a clip of themself eating the food and smugly nodding at their own supposed cooking skills. am i weird
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I really think it depends on how they do it too. A simple, elegant nod after trying the food shows that the dish was made as it was intended. “Mmm” sounds or lip-smacking don’t make me understand the taste of the dish, but surely make me want to never watch it again
Oh definitely some are worse than others. (And any sound would make me want to vomit.) But even if they’re not overacting (they’re always overacting on Instagram), I just find it off-putting when the person who cooked lays it on thick. Weirdly, I do not mind it at all if it’s someone else eating.
As a visual artist, it just seems like showing yourself orgasmically eating your own food is the culinary equivalent cutting back to show yourself being blown away by your own drawing skills. No. Just… why? No.
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